St. Louis checks in as America's most dangerous city while Baltimore suburb ranks as the safest: study
12.10.2022 - 20:18
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A study ranked St. Louis as the most dangerous city in the United States, while Columbia, Maryland, checks in as the country's safest amid an overall rise in crime across the country. "Relations between local police forces and the people they are empowered to protect are not good," Steven G.
Koven, a Department of Urban and Public Affairs professor at the University of Louisville, said of the results of a WalletHub study. "There is more than enough evidence to point to a breakdown in trust and resort to violence. For example, according to the Fraternal Order of Police (the largest police union in the United States), 2021 was the bloodiest year in history for American law enforcement officers." The comments come amid a spike in crime across the U.S.
since 2020, most notably in the country's largest cities.That problem has been felt worst in St. Louis, which ranked in as America's most dangerous city, according to the results of a WalletHub study released Monday. WalletHub compared 182 American cities, taking the country's 150 largest cities as well as the two largest cities in all 50 states, ranking them in order of safest to least safe. Old Court House and Gateway Arch, as photographed from Citygarden in St.
Louis, Missouri. (Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The study used 42 metrics to judge a city's safety, adding in metrics such as COVID-19 vaccination rates, terrorist attacks, mass shootings, firefighters per capita, auto accidents, natural disaster risk, and financial security in addition to crime. St.